Freedom of Choice

By: Dan Bailey

One of the "catch" words today is choice! A lot of people are saying that they have the right to chooseabortion, sodomy, adultery, etc. These sins and the arguments to practice them are not new. When Christ was born into the world many of the Romans and their conquered peoples practiced abortion, sodomy, adultery, etc. Christians took a stand for God and against sin. The only way to stand with God is to stand againstall those things that He hates or abhors.

The psalmist said, "Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way" (Psalm 119:104). God has and always will hate sin. We read in Proverbs 6:16-19, "These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren."

In the Old Testament time, God commanded the children of Israel to make a choice. There are really only two ways to go. We either go God's way or Satan's way. Moses, by commandment of God, told the children of Israel, "See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them" (Deuteronomy 30:15-20).

Long ago, Joshua exhorted the people to make a choice. When he was 110 years of age he told them, "And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD" (Joshua 24:15).

Christ admonished His followers in the sermon on the mount, "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it" (Matthew 7:13-14)

Yes my friends, it is clear that God has given to us the ability to choose our eternal destiny. If we choose sin and darkness, then hell will be your home forever. If we choose righteousness and light, then heaven will be your eternal abode. 

What will it be? Will you choose heaven or hell, God or Satan, light or darkness? Make your decision TODAY! "Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God" (Hebrews 3:7-12).